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Search results for "anti-aging" ...
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Selling the Fountain of Youth
The book takes readers inside the modern anti-aging industry, where doctors prescribe human growth hormone (HGH), "bio-identical" estrogen and progesterone, and an infinite medicine chest of herbal supplements such as resveratrol and acai.
Tags: anti-aging; supplements; drugs
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Rx For Trouble: Inside the Steriod Sting
"The article exposes an illegal internet/rogue-doctor/compound pharmacy/anti-aging clinic/steroid distribution network that has provided human growth hormone and steroids to dozens of major athletes in a variety of sports and has made these drugs accessible to America's youth. Sports Illustrated exposes questionable activity of an NFL doctor who subsequently is forced to resign from his job."
Tags: steriods; drugs; athletes; human growth hormone
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Anti-Aging
"Patients were routinely given hormones to look and feel younger even when tests showed no deficiencies... medical research shows taking too much of these hormones has serious side effects, including an increased cancer rate." This story show how the Preventive Medicine of the Pacific, and anti-aging clinic, is run by a person that is not a doctor, and neither has a medical license of any kind.
Tags: hormones; anti-aging; Preventive Medicine of the Pacific; California Medical Association; Regalia; TAPE; TV; TRANSCRIPT